WHATS IN YOUR GARDEN????

[25211]

Another quick update
As it is now still light when I get home from work I am staring to spot things
there was the first crocus the other day (the flower still hasn't opened)
And then last night I was just wandering around the bit next door thinking I might give it a quick turn over & bang in some chicken manure pellets
then just throw some more poppy seeds in it
when I thought hang on what's that oh maybe mother nature has other ideas









So there may well be considerably less effort involved in my as little effort as possible approach to next doors bit
just taken those photos after a good hour of watching the birds out there
so far today
Blue tits
sparrows
Robins
Blackbirds
Starlings
Magpies
collard doves
pidgins
and what I think was a song thrush
TTFN

[StonedSince67]

Another quick update

inspired by your efforts so far this year i have got myself back out in my garden and am doing stuff again

i have dug and raked a 10x2 foot long flower bed and planted a double row of calendula officinalis the original "pot" marigold, the bed is visible from the kitchen window when i am washing the dishes and the orange glow when the flowers are out is stunning

to get six winter garden plants i ordered in the mail into the ground i had to dig over a small rescue bed for them to await the eventual digging of the winter garden, i am a little behind

but the biggest surprise yet was having both the motivation and the energy to mow all the back garden areas of lawn in one afternoon, it was only on setting 'e' so not much was cut off, maybe that is why it was easier this time

in any case i am back in action out in the garden ... digging the veg beds is next

happy gardening

[Twichaldinho]

Been out in the Garden too.... Planting Dhalia tubers and oriental poppy tubers... These are to provide cover for my Autos
Secondly, I have been pricking out, and replanting some Lavender which I scattered into a trough last year before winter...hopefully providing an aroma to disguise the smell
Thirdly, planted some primula viialli into a large pot.
Finally, mixed some grit, and compost with fish blood and bone, and dug it into my flowerbed.

Prep, prep, prep....

[25211]

in any case i am back in action out in the garden ... digging the veg beds is next

happy gardening

excellent to here I will be looking forward to your updates

Been out in the Garden too.... Planting Dhalia tubers and oriental poppy tubers... These are to provide cover for my Autos
Secondly, I have been pricking out, and replanting some Lavender which I scattered into a trough last year before winter...hopefully providing an aroma to disguise the smell
Thirdly, planted some primula viialli into a large pot.
Finally, mixed some grit, and compost with fish blood and bone, and dug it into my flowerbed.

Prep, prep, prep....

That's a good plan do the work now and relax and enjoy it all later in the year

Well my week off work to get stuck in to mine didn't quite go to plan
I had already lifted a clump of geranium from the back and had a few ideas for what to do there
I had given the grass a quick cut on a high(ish) setting a couple of weeks before
As much to check the mower as I had just ordered a new one so I could send the old one to my mum & dads

And then on the Friday night I had just finished work for the week off my mum had a fall and ended up in hospital
Just to make things interesting my dad had, had a cataract done the day before, and my mum is classed as his carer
so it was all hands to the pumps, my sister also decided I needed to get away for a day or 2 and told me to bugger off mid week
so the end result is small amount done in my garden, a bit more done at my Mum & Dads
And I have resorted to buying a couple of plants for mine!!
It looks like it will be a long job with my Mum, hairline fracture of a vertebra
I have a few photos to try to sort out & could do to take some more
So will try to put them up at some point
One thing I must say is
While at times this last week it has felt like my brain was about to start running out of my ears
the few times I have managed to sit out on the bench with a coffee or beer and a smoke, listening to the birds and spotting the fact that spring has arrived
Has stopped me ending up sitting in a corner blowing bits of paper off the end of my nose
TTFN

[Twichaldinho]

A wee Lupin... bet this bitch throws up mega spikes


Crocosmia ( Sp) planted this last year, bitch never flowered.. hoping for lots of bright red flowers this year.


Dont know what this is..been like this for about a week.... thinking it may be a lilly from the asiatic ones I planted last year... I never dug up the bulbs.. so who knows


Again, dunno WTF this is


Remember the wee Heuchera I planted last summer..... stocky little bitch now ... filled out or what.


And my fig tree made it through the winter..


And finally.. just planted these wee strawberry plants.


Bloody Scorchio in Edinburgh today...

[winnie]

one of the mystery ones looks like rhubarb... it all looks great

[spidergawd]

It's a real pleasure to see the gardeners back in action, well done peeps helping to keep the planet beautiful. .

I think I might follow Twitch'o example and put a couple of auto's outside this year in among a few bits of shrubbery. I tried a haze last year among my tomato's, but I got a bit paranoid when it got to about 2 metres and had left the tomato's far behind so I had to chop it. My garden is quite overlooked by the upper windows of the surrounding houses but I could get away with something up to a metre, any way I will give it a go. I've got some of Automaria II (sativa) and some Pandora (Indica).

Is it still a bit early to put them in yet or should I go for it

[Twichaldinho]

It's a real pleasure to see the gardeners back in action, well done peeps helping to keep the planet beautiful. .

Is it still a bit early to put them in yet or should I go for it

Dunno about dan saf in Londonshire, but up here, despite the loverly sunsheeeiinnnee over the last few days, its still march
So I intend to wait till at least mid April, maybe 420, before I germinate anything... For what its worth, my car was ever so sligtly frozen just last week after most nightshifts.... Jackie boy frost is a sneeky wee punk

[spidergawd]

It's a real pleasure to see the gardeners back in action, well done peeps helping to keep the planet beautiful. .

Is it still a bit early to put them in yet or should I go for it

Dunno about dan saf in Londonshire, but up here, despite the loverly sunsheeeiinnnee over the last few days, its still march
So I intend to wait till at least mid April, maybe 420, before I germinate anything... For what its worth, my car was ever so sligtly frozen just last week after most nightshifts.... Jackie boy frost is a sneeky wee punk

Well dan saf at the mo is also schorchio old plum, been iyt and abyte on the velocipede tee shirting it all day, although I'm close to the river so it's still a wee bitty nippy in the night watches. So I reckon I will join you for a mid April planting . Soon come .

[StonedSince67]

just noticed this in the press ... o to be a gardener and in amsterdam for those dates, what a treat it would be

Open Garden Days

Every year in the third weekend of June the Amsterdam Open Garden Days are held. On the 15, 16 and 17 of June 2012 some thirty canal gardens will be open to the public. Each year the Open Garden days are being organized around a theme. This year the theme will be ‘Coach houses and garden houses’

http://www.opentuinendagen.nl/

[cattales1960]

just noticed this in the press ... o to be a gardener and in amsterdam for those dates, what a treat it would be

Open Garden Days

Every year in the third weekend of June the Amsterdam Open Garden Days are held. On the 15, 16 and 17 of June 2012 some thirty canal gardens will be open to the public. Each year the Open Garden days are being organized around a theme. This year the theme will be ‘Coach houses and garden houses’

http://www.opentuinendagen.nl/

that sound awesome! Hope you get to go and enjoy it!

[sam]

West side of greenhouse. 1 row sweet bell peppers, 3 rows tomatoes, and 1 row cucumbers.

East side of greenhouse. 1 row sweet bell peppers, 2 rows tomatoes, 1 row of hot peppers, and 1 row of egg plant.

Water/Fertilizer station


This is my 40'X76' greenhouse. I planted it the first 2 days of April.

[sam]

A few close up pics. Should look really nice in a month.
chocolate cherry tomato

green to red sweet bell pepper

chinese burpless cucumber

This is my new buisness. I put up the greenhouse last year and had a short growing(learning) season because I did not get the plants into the greenhouse untill late July. Every thing is grown hydroponically and every thing except the roll up sides on the greenhouse are all automated to save work/time. I owned a construction company for 20 years and just needed somethig new in life. I tried being a machinist working for someone else, but it did not work out because after 20 years of being my own boss working for someone else just did not work. In 2 to 4 weeks it will be nice enough to plant my outside garden.

[spidergawd]

sam wrote

I owned a construction company for 20 years and just needed somethig new in life.

Great change of direction sam my best wishes for a succesful future, it has to be less stressful than the building game I'd think. .

[Slip & Sal]

sweet set up